How can film comment on locality?

As I have repeatedly mentioned before, film has a large role in commenting on and shaping the perceptions of a specific location – a city, a building, anything really on top of which we can add layers and layers of narratives – the real ones that we create through everyday life, and those narratives that are consciously placed there by film makers. As an extension of my last blog post and in preparation of our final presentation, I have looked a little more extensively at the interesting phenomenon of Amsterdamned in comparison with its American predecessor Puppet on a Chain.